CHAPDISC: DH26, Gringotts

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 184088

 
> zanooda:
> 
> Exactly, you need to *save* him, and in good condition, otherwise
> he'll be dead by the time you need him :-).
>

Pippin:
Keeping people almost but not quite dead is the sort of thing
Voldemort is good at. He would make quite sure Ollivander didn't die
until all useful information had been extracted from him. Like Bertha
Jorkins. 

Ollivander is very particular about wand materials in what he sells,
but I'd imagine he could put together a wand out of just about
anything at a pinch. Keeping him weak from lack of food would be one
way of making sure he didn't. That would leave him vulnerable to
disease, but since he was isolated in the cellar, it's unlikely he'd
have caught anything. 


Pippin